Fair enough. I have no complaints with the current volunteers. I was mainly just curious. Thanks for the reply. On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ian Murray <murrayie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > >There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and > this list about CentOS. My initial thought was why not have CentOS and SL > merge. Since they have different goals I can understand the reason not to. > So my next question is, has no corporate entity offered to sponsor full time > people to work on CentOS? It seems like a lot of companies use CentOS for > various things. I can't believe no one is willing to help speed development > by paying for people to build full time. Has this subject come up before? > > > > > As far as I can tell, it is as simple as this:- > > The volunteers that create CentOS like things the way it is and it isn't > likely to change. We seen it said a number of times, if we don't like it > then go somewhere else. I suggest there might be room for another rebuild > project that is open to commercially sponsored, i.e. somewhere else. This > would n't be a 'rival' because its aims would be different. I'll be honest > though, I don't realistically see enough money coming in to put people > full-time onto it, though, when you consider market rate for the skills > required. > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110327/5ec70cb4/attachment-0005.html>